This book has left me emotionally spent. There are so many things I want to say about it but for now I will say read this book

Review: After sitting with my thoughts about this book for some time, I wanted to come back and say it was impossible for me to stop reading is book. Aminata and her plight consumed my thoughts and so many emotions raged as I considered how unjust the world was and continues to become.

Aminata says: "But there are men, women, and children walking about the streets without the faintest idea of our nightmares. They cannot know what we endured if we never find anyone to listen."

Snatched and kidnapped from her homeland as a young child, witnessing the murder of both her parents in the opening pages, my heart was ripped out. I learn d her name, experienced her nightmares that happened in the happenings of her everyday life.

She says, "the pain of my losses never really went away. The limbs had been severed and they would forever be missing."